I used the last EasyD version
installed GTK then GTKD 1.2, build it. The sample works ok (cairo clock for instance)

Then I took the rae trunk

Like you indicated I went directly into the example folder and compiler the helloworld sample.
The library was constructed correctly but at the link stage I got a lot of error messages, saying that some symbols were already defined, the mangled names show exclusively symbols coming from Tango.

It shows a menu and 3 buttons, but it is not interactive. if I click on a button the console shows 'button clicked', but no visual cue is made. if I touch the menu nothing happens and the program becomes 'Not responding'.

Thanks for trying it out. And great that you got it compiling. I don't remember when was the last time I tested on Windows. But it was fast at that point. On some old integrated GPU it was much faster than on my laptop.

I'll have to check how it does on my other Windows install which has an nvidia.

tested it. did the same as you. the new tango and dmd bundle. it is really slow.
some kind of compiler regression. or something to do with easy d being overwritten. But propably something compiler related. I tried old version of it, and with the old compiler it is fast, and with the new one it's slow.

I also added a new example called paned_app, which is quite like the one showed on the video (without the external video library dependencies). The speed is very fast on OS X, and ok on Linux. Some animation glitches due to garbage collection I guess.

If somebody could try Rae on Windows with other versions of DMD, and possibly if those don't work, then with tango trunk or something. I'd like to know if it's fast on any DMD version. (GDC seems to work fine.)